Transfering music

Carmen

I have a new ipod nano and have been trying to transfer music to it from my computer, no joy
Can anyone tell me an easy way to do this, simples please/
Thanks
Carmen x

jamespir

use itunes it should do it automatically

Carmen

Thanks James, is this free?
Carmen x

Donnie

iTunes is free.

jamespir

Carmen wrote: »

Thanks James, is this free?
Carmen x

yes the software is free you only pay for music you download through there shop but you can just use it as a media player

when you install it it will ask you to select your music directories
it will then find every sound file you have on your computer

so when youve plugged in your ipod make sure you turn of autosync you can do this in the settings
then just select the songs you want to transfer over and it takes a few minutes and its done

Carmen

Thanks guys,
I'm curious to know why most of my search results showed computer to ipod transfer any idea's?

Carmen

Sorry to sound dim (only techie stuff) but is that the settings on Media player or the ipod itself?
Thanks
Carmen x

scottishblondie

Once you have installed itunes and it is showing your music, plug your ipod into your computer. itunes should detect that an ipod has been connected. You will then be able to drag and drop music onto it in itunes. It should all become fairly self-evident once you have itunes and plug in the ipod

Carmen

Yeah I think I've got it :T:T:T
Buuuuttt, can you tell me why only some of the album pics show on the ipod?
Carmen x

scottishblondie

The album art will only show on the ipod if you have it in itunes. You can right click on something and select "get album artwork" and itunes will try to find it and download it.

Carmen

jamespir wrote: »

yes the software is free you only pay for music you download through there shop but you can just use it as a media player

when you install it it will ask you to select your music directories
it will then find every sound file you have on your computer

so when youve plugged in your ipod make sure you turn of autosync you can do this in the settings
then just select the songs you want to transfer over and it takes a few minutes and its done

Oh dear, I have got myself into a right mess!
I initally forgot to turn off autosync and my ipod was showing I had used up so much space. It is a 16g and showing (I think) nearly full:eek: I only put a few albums on and it is showing I have 349 albumbs :eek: I decided to delete all music off the ipod uninstall itunes and start again.
I have reinstalled itunes (remembered to turn off autosync) but I am having difficulty in transfering my music to my ipod! I have managed to drag and drop 5 songs over and now I cannot seem to do anymore (I cannot transfer my Limewire songs either)
I hope this all makes sense and someone will tell me where I am going wrong?
Thanks for reading.
Carmen x